Quotes About Balance

But how little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue, she could easily conjecture.

it is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

I could not excuse a man's having more music than love — more ear than eye — a more acute sensibility to fine sounds than to my feelings.

he is gentleman and i am agentleman's daughter.so far we are equal

He is a gentleman and i am a gentleman's daughter. so far we are equal.

if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now

As regularly as I can. But you recognize married ladies have never tons time for writing. My sisters can also write to me. They will have nothing else to do.

one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half, or always suspecting the other of being worse than it was.

todo impulso del sentimiento ha de ser dirigido por la razón y en mi opinión , el esfuerzo debe de ser proporcional a lo que se pretende.

but every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

No me supone ningún sacrificio aceptar ocasionalmente compromisos para la noche. Todos nos debemos a la sociedad, y confieso que soy de los que consideran que los intervalos de recreo y esparcimiento son recomendables para todo el mundo - Mary

Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.

We translate the word "Justice," but Dikè means, not Justice as between man and man, but the order of the world, the way of life.

Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential.

People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,' and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside.

Peace starts within. (Jane Goodall).

Consider the farmer who sprays his fields with insecticide to kill the bugs that are damaging his crops. He kills thousands of harmless insects as well, including some that actually do good, such as bees that pollinate the flowers and give us honey. Creatures that feed on insects, especially birds, also get sick and die. In the end, because the poisonous chemicals get widely distributed, humans may become sick, too.

Any little thing that brings us back into communion with the natural world and the spiritual power that permeates all life will help us to move a little further along the path of human moral and spiritual evolution.

Nature can win if we give her a chance.

Unfortunately, the media devotes so much space to covering all of the bad, hateful things that are going on and not enough to reporting about all the goodness and kindness that's out there.

We need nature, but nature does not need us.

nature is there, waiting to move in and help to heal herself.

Someone once wondered why it is that if a work of Man is destroyed, it is called vandalism, but if a work of nature, of God, is destroyed it is so often called progress.

She said there's always beauty, even when there's pain and suffering. She learned not to hide from the darkness, just not to get lost in it.